Drones are essentially flying police officers. “If I’m in my backyard, if I’m on my deck, do I expect that I have to encounter a law enforcement camera? I shouldn’t have to,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @TexasObserver. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-drone-fleet-doubled-in-size/

1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban. A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide. It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months. Our latest story here:

Nationwide Trans Youth Care Ba...

#Montreal was rated #1 bicycle city in North America this year.

But the party that won the municipal election in November campaigned on auditing and removing bike lanes.

They’ve already started in my borough, #Outremont.

So we made our own bike lane this morning. We want, and need, to keep our kids active—and safe.

1. New Zealand doctors are officially suing to reverse the country's ban on puberty blockers for gender affirming care. “These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence." Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/were-takin...

“We’re taking this to court”: ...

In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older and Karen Lord -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! Grab one now!
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Will-Rise-Again/Malka-Older/9781668095959

Assembly of First Nations receive unanimous support on resolution to uphold oil tanker ban.

Carney will speak to them later today. Expect some very hard questions
#cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7000097

Bad year for the #Flu

The #H3N2 #SubcladeK has mutations that may evade the immunity that the #FluVaccine gives

🇺🇸 The US has reported the strain in 20 states

🇯🇵 Japan has declared an #InfluenzaEpidemic

🇪🇸 Spain has recommended #Mask mandates

🇬🇧 UK is "facing it's worst winter yet"

🇨🇦 Canada issued a warning about the vaccine mismatch

When you see warnings for people w/ immunity, cardiac, lung, etc. issues, remember if you've ever had #Covid, that's probably you.

#MaskUP & Stay Safe! 😷🫶

"Mark Carney, the central banker, was the thought leader the climate movement needed: someone who could translate the reality of climate change into the language of finance. As prime minister, he is torching the country’s climate policies, while pouring government time and resources into new fossil fuel infrastructure. To state the obvious, these are not the decisions of a climate champion."

Did the climate world misread Carney? | Canada's National Observer: Climate News
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/01/analysis/climate-world-misread-mark-carney

https://archive.ph/XFOQ6

I have a December gift for you all 🎁

I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!

I am able to select a handful of folks to receive a free advance copy, and I would love to ensure this group represents a broad range of perspectives and experiences.

You can indicate your interest here. And you are welcome to share this form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMFf2RbEOYqbWLB4XqXThUPlqlt0uiA_mIBqcFBuwZMwJxHw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=101137009349226307307

The next time someone says "Privacy doesn't matter to me, I've got nothing to hide", show them this video.

"A political movement that dreams of a world that is smaller, simpler, dumber, more servile and less curious would naturally fixate upon college campuses and the acts of becoming that happen there; people in that movement would want, so intensely that it would come to crowd out any other wish or purpose, the opportunity to make that all stop. They would, as always, want to smash whatever they want to smash and enjoy the security of knowing not just that they would face no repercussions, but be the hero of the story for having done so."

https://defector.com/the-conservative-grievance-business-is-always-hiring

#USPol

There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/data-center-water-pollution-amazon-oregon-1235466613/

More than a million people in Ontario needed to use food banks last year: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/2025-hunger-report-feed-ontario-food-bank-use-1-million-users-rise-9.6997356 This is the ninth straight year of increases.

"As the world's most beautiful hummingbird, I have posed for you, and it is now your duty to take my photo"-- a modest & unassuming male Blue-throated Starfrontlet

#Hummingbird #Bird #Birding #Photography #BirdPhotography #Nature #Outdoors #Colombia #PhotoMonday

Catching up on Ruben Gallego’s most-recently publicized misogynist, anti-trans texts and, more importantly, his own characterization of them. https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2025/11/29/senator-gallegos-anti-trans-messages-leaked/

Gallego casts his blatant bigotry and hatred as as being in service to an inclusive, “big tent” vision of the Democratic Party.

A disingenuous and pragmatically unpromising approach. 1/

just called ai "the mediocrity machine" in a meeting and the tech bro is shaking a finger at me and twitching so hard he can't even plug what's happening into the machine so it can tell him how to respond

#poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #homeless #houseless #Criminology #CriminalJustice

What a bunch of shady creepers.

Just need to scream a little bit about how there are actually hard limits to how much stuff we can have in orbit without severe consequences! It's ok to say that out loud, even if the techbros don't want to hear it!

It's ok (and vitally important) to have in your list of recommendations for satellites operators "Don't launch so many satellites." This is really pretty key to not destroying the night sky, LEO, and/or the atmosphere.

Red pandas are called that because they’re communists.